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Build A Better Brain

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In this world, media have taken over our lives. People tend to believe everything that they see on social media. Scientists believe there are ways people can strengthen their brains. The science article is called Exercise, cognition, and the aging, brain; by Arthur F. Kramer, Kirk I. Erickson and Stanley J. Colcombe. The media article is called Can You Build a Better Brain? It was written by Sharon Begley and Ian Yarett. The media article does not do a good job of evaluating the important scientific information; the media article never mentions a majority of what it should have. This paper will show the public that there might be some things that the media articles are not telling us.
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By reading the media article first and then evaluating …show more content…

“Alzheimer’s disease was significantly higher for individuals who exercised fewer than three times per week (19.7 per 1,000 person yr) compared with those who exercised more than three times per week (13.0 per 1,000 person yr). A gene implicated in cognitive deficits and Alzheimer’s dementia, moderates the effects of fitness training on cognition” (Kramer). Some of the results that the scientists got were unclear. The media article did mention dementia. In Can You Build a Better Brain, they talk about how smoking can also increase your risk of dementia. “Cigarettes may boost your memory and attention,” (Begley) but in the future you may begin to see your teeth start turning yellow. Your skin not looking like how it should and your future might hold lung cancer and heart disease. In the Exercise, cognition, and the aging, brain article, researches have found that the participants who scored the lowest physical performance on the tests, will have more of a risk of seeing signs for having Alzheimer’s in the future. Just by doing some sort of exercise at least three times a week, the risk of you getting Alzheimer’s will decrease. You will also be less likely to get other types of diseases, such as heart disease which can led to a heart attack. Also by exercising daily, it can help strengthen your …show more content…

In a psychological state, it is known to affect the processes that control movement, emotional response, the ability to experience pleasure and pain. Nicotine has positive effects on motor skills, short-term memory, attention, and other cognitive skills. It also mentions two limitations: “you can get the same dopamine boosting benefits of the drug by simply believing that you’ll do well, which itself releases dopamine” (Begley). Our bodies already release a certain amount of dopamine when needed. If peoples’ bodies start to go off that trend, then bad things could happen. In the science article they provide an abundance of research, and ratios. The media article is misleading in this way. The difference of these two articles are the vocabulary and literacy, and the studies that they include. As addressed earlier, the science article went into detail about the research, the experiments conducted, and what they had found out. In the end the media article did not do a good job at explaining the science article.

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